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mcseforsale:
I've only had one heat related reboot.  It was about 97 out that day and the garage was HOT.  Otherwise, the vents are doing their job.  2' soffet vents on the door and 3" ones on the top.  Whenever I open the door, the inside temp is only a few degrees above ambient. 

But, I'm runnin a P4 3.2GHz with a gig of ram.



AJ



--- Quote from: boardjunkie on July 28, 2012, 06:29:29 pm ---I left mine cased for half a day. With the back door on it got so got it almost killed the PC. I suppose if you vent the fans straight to vent openings in the top/back of the cab it would be ok. Just leaving the thing cased inside the cab can cause heat issues like I had because the case keeps recycling its own warm exhaust air and it gets warmer and warmer with time.

I decased the PC and installed 2 fans for HDD/overall cooling, and butted the pwr supply fan up to a back door vent. It runs a ton cooler now.

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krick:
Here's the back of an Offroad Thunder cabinet with the back door off.  You can see that the case is mounted vertically.  The case has fans on the bottom that suck in cooler air which moves across the components and exits the top through vents above the PCI slots (hard to see in this picture) or through the power supply exhaust.  Presumably, the hot air then rises and exits through vents in the top of the cabinet.  I assume that there's some kind of vent or vents near the bottom of the cabinet to bring in cool air from the outside.

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